Morning journal and courier., 1887-08-27

cost the State $50, ,0O0, 900. There are $780,
600 of them. They cost their owners five
cents day, or $45, ,OOO,o 900, and they cost
sheep owners So, ,OOO, 900 more.
The Philadelphia textile school, the leading
school of the kind in this country, attracts
pupils from all parts of the country. Such
schools are common in Germany and Austria,
Vienna having FIVE schools devoted to weav-
ing alone. The course at Philadelphia extends
over three years and the practical studies in
clude the ordinary loom in the first year,
double cloths and jacquard looms in the Sec
ond, and carpet, chenille, rug and gauze
weaving in the third. 1t is stated that the
demand for the graduates of the school is
greater than the supply.
The illiteracy in the South has been looked
on as alarming, but the annual report of the
State factory inspectors of New York shows
an alarming condition of things nearer home.
They find that thousands of children born in
this country or who came here in early child
hood are unable to read; almost as many are
unable to write, and thousands of others can
do little more than write their own names. A
the factory towns were signed with cross
mark. the report suggests establishing
night schools in every village and town in
the Stats, and recommends law to prevent
the mingling of the sexes in factories.
A French paper contains the following IA
BILE: Four flies were in quest of breakfast.
One found some jelly and RECALLED himself.
The jelly was not genuine and the fly turned
upon his back. The second fly, seeing the
sad fate of his friend, resolved to eat plain
bread Bnt there was so much alum in the
bread that he; too, turned over and breathed
his last. The third fly attacked a glass of
beer, but the aloes laid him out cold. The
fourth fy seeing that everything eatable was
tampered with, resolved to commit suicide.
He found some German fly paper on which
was inscribed s'Death to fies' He partook
| freely. but the more he ate the better he felt.
He stuck to fly paper and lived to good old
age.
The Railway Age pu blishes an interesting
| table of the most destructive railroad acci-
| dents of the past forty years. From this it
appears that the number of very serious acoi-
not exceeded by those in foreign countries.
For example, those in which sixty or more
persons were killed were in America as fol-
lows: July H. 1856, Philadelphia and Read
| ing railroad. at Camphill, Penn, collision, &c
| killed, 100 injured; July Is, 1854, Erie rail
| road, at Port Jervis, N. Y, head collision,
| so killed, 100 injured; December 20, 1876,
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, at Ash
| tabula, O., broken bridge, about 80 killed, 60
| injured; and the Chatsworth disaster with n
killed and 130 injured. On foreign railroads
during the same period there were the follow
| ing: March II, 1857 Great Western of Cana
| da at the Des Jardines Canal, by broken
| bridge, 60 killed, 80 injured; June 20, 1854,
Grand Trunk of Canada, at Richelieu river,
| by an open drawbridge SO killed, hundreds"
| injured; December 2S, 1879, North British
railroad, at the Tay bridge, by derailment,
| "a killed; June "a, 1881, Morelis railroad, at
San Antonio river. by broken bridge, 200
killed; June 8. 1885, at Kosleff, Russia,
train derailed by wreckers, 20 killed and
wounded.
It is encouraging to notice that two bills
have been introduced into the Georgia legis-
| lature to increase the punishment for carry
| ing concealed weapons. One makes the Of
fence felony, and provides that it shall be
punished by Imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary with hard labor for not less than one
nor more than five years. The other bill
amends the code SO as to provide fine of
not less than $500 nor more than 81 900, and
| imprisonment in the county jail for not
more than twelve months or in the penitenti-
| ary for not less than one nor for more than
four years. The Savannah News Oem.) in a
discussion of the I" "hip-pocket evil" recalls
the fact that within few days two promi
nent men in Georgia have been killed, both
by municipal officers who carried pistols, and
! it points to the true remedy when it says